David

Rock Feinstein made this interview prior to having his album released by Magic Circle Music and is referring to the songs on the Feinstein "Third Wish" album, one track of which is included on the Magic: A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio album.

I hope you all will enjoy it and please do not be influenced by some of jealousy and negativity being spread about this very heartfelt project ,which I along with many others who shall soon come forth are very proud of. Magic Circle Music will be issuing a statement very soon but in the meantime let me personally express my feelings about it with some indisputable facts:

1 Joey DeMaio along with other members of Manowar knew Ronnie long before the people who are speaking ill of this project, with the exception of Rock Feinstein.

2 Joey and Ronnie were very close friends and no words of jealousy can ever change that, please look at the video that is forthcoming to see it for yourself.

3 In my opinion, Rock Feinstein has one person and one person only to thank for the fact that he has a career today and that person is Joey DeMaio.
The fact is... Joey signed him to Magic Circle Music personally, Joey not only made it possible for him to play at Wacken, but Joey played the song Far Beyond on stage with him.

It is well known that Ronnie and Rock had not spoken to each other (not the first time for something like this to happen) for many, months and Joey alone is responsible for re-uniting them onstage that night.

Lastly This tribute is being done in memory of a friend by his friends not for financial gain... Joey DeMaio trusts his fans, and his fans trust him... seeing this video will hint that there is a real, legitimate history (and reason) behind our Dio project.

This 2002/2003 interview is unedited as you can see. The first part of Feinstein's 2010 press release statement appears beside him. We understand people can often make errors in their memories, which is why we had this interview archived to clear up any misunderstandings. We offer this interview with respect to Feinstein to help clarify our feelings in this situation.

-Neil Johnson, Director